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He had no trouble at all, except for making his way through the thick / traffic. The explosions and shouting coming from the castle had aroused / the whole town, so that everybody who could stand on his two feet, or / could get somebody to carry him, was outside, milling around, asking / questions, talking excitedly and in general trying to make as much / chaos as possible and to enjoy every bit of this excuse to take part in / a general disturbance. Green strode through them, his head bent but his / eyes probing ahead. He made fairly good progress, only being held up / temporarily a few times by the human herd.
Finally the flat plain of the windbreak lay before him, and the many / masts of the great wheeled vessels were a forest around him. He was / able to get to the _Bird of Fortune_ unchallenged by any of the dozens / of guardsmen that he passed. The 'roller herself lay snugly between two / docks, where a huge gang of slaves had towed her. There was a gangway / running up from one of the docks, and at both ends stood a sailor on / guard, clad in the family colors of yellow, violet and crimson. They / chewed _grixtr_ nut, something like betel except that it stained both / teeth and lips and gave them a green color.